Word: globe
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Having traveled halfway around the globe to race on Bertrand's home turf, the better part of the world sailing establishment is now prepared to dispute his claim. For seven days ending last week, 14 brightly colored 12-meter yachts, representing eleven America's Cup syndicates from six countries, plowed the boisterous waters off Western Australia in a pre-Cup sparring match called the 12-Meter World Championship. When the last sails were furled, the visitors had taken a belting, both from the sea and from the home team. A 20- knot wind, known locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently...
...before the year is out, Brown's presumptuous 263-page volume may be studied more intently by more people in more countries than Reagan's address. And it is arguably a more accurate and provocative picture of the globe than the one sketched by the President...
...Department of Agriculture. Worldwatch, founded ten years ago with the help of the Rockefeller brothers, predicted the current African famines. Brown and his dozen diligent helpers claim no special powers, only a willingness to mine other people's statistics. Worldwatch is plugged into 70 research institutes around the globe and has access to computer data from the United Nations, World Bank and the U.S. Government...
...billion on insurance in 1984, and the American Medical Association (AMA) predicts the figure will reach $7 billion within three years. Medical, legal and insurance industries, each rapacious in its own inimitable way, have evolved into three fiercely competitive and increasingly unscrupulous rivals. One disgruntled, and perhaps uninformed, Boston Globe columnist recently quipped that any attempt to take sides on the malpractice issue "is like trying to decide whom to cheer for if war erupted between Libya, Iran, and Iraq...
Mark Weinberg, spokesman for the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster, told the Globe yesterday night he did not know whether William P. Rogers, commission chairman, had received Markey's letter...